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VIDEO: The Maverick Balotelli Does It Again! Scores And Then Gets Sent Off [WATCH]

Mario Balotelli scored a late winner before being sent off as Nice maintained their lead at the top of Ligue 1 with a 2-1 victory agains...

Mario Balotelli scored a late winner before being sent off
as Nice maintained their lead at the top of Ligue 1 with a 2-1 victory against Lorient.

Ricardo Pereira had handed the hosts a first-half lead with
his first goal for the club but Benjamin Moukandjo struck just after the hour
mark to level things up.

Balotelli's 85th-minute strike, his sixth goal since signing
for Nice at the end of the summer transfer window, secured all three points for
Les Aiglons before he was sent off shortly afterwards for a second yellow card.

Sergi Darder scored his first goal of the season as Lyon
bounced back from successive defeats with a 2-0 win over St Etienne in the
Rhone derby.

Last weekend's league loss in Lorient, followed by a slender
Champions League reverse at Sevilla, left Bruno Genesio hopeful of an immediate
response from his team.

And former Spain Under-21 international Darder ensured his
manager's wishes were realised with a brave back-post header before Rachid
Ghezzal made sure late on with a superb strike from outside the penalty area.

Angers denied Marseille a second successive victory by
securing a 1-1 draw through Pierrick Capelle's stoppage-time equaliser. Florian
Thauvin's deflected 63rd-minute goal had given the visitors the lead.